The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-25

will divide the vertebrae and cause imme-
date death, after which the fowls are hung
up by the legs until bled. They are then
picked when warm. In this way the skin
presents natural appearance.
The statement is made in New York
City paper that one railroad carried $4,000
country boarders to farm-houses in three
counties in the State, where they stayed on
an average eight weeks each, and left in the
hands of farmers 81, 400, 600. II the state
ment is true summer boarders appear to be
the best-paying crop farmer can raise.
Farmers in Louisiana will in the future
give more attention to raising mules. For
a century mules for doing farm work have
been obtained from Kentucky and other
States, and have called for the expenditure
of large sums of money. Farmers have
lately found out that mules can be raised
at home for much less than they can be
bought.
An Indiana farmer states the owner of
quarter-section of prairie land should be
able to raise and sell ten fat steers and forty
hogs each year, besides raising food enough
to supply his family. If his stock is good
his cash sales will amount to about 81, 800
per year.
During a recent thunderstorm a large
number of horses and cattle were killed by
tightening near Denton, Texas. The stock
were drifted against the wire fences, and it
is thought the lightning struck the wire
fences, and, having no ground connec-
tions, killed the animals in passing from
the wires to the ground. Ten head of cat
tie were killed in one bunch. Several
smaller punches were killed. The light
ming played upon the wires like balls of
fire. This shows it is necessary to have on
wire fences ground connections in order to
allow the electricity to freely pass to the
ground.
The secretary of the Ohio Agricultural
Society reports, under date of May 6, that
the wheat crop of 1886 was 40, $50, S6S bush
els, which was about a full average crop.
The present prospect for the crop OF 1887
is rs, 400, 600 bushels, shortage of 80 per
cent. compared with fair average crop.
Favorable weather may increase this esti-
mate. Thirty-one counties estimate the
condition below So per cent, and only Eve
counties above 30 per cent. On level clay
lands, especially in the bowlder clay or
drift, wheat is the poorest. In counties of
rolling land higher averages are reported,
while the best wheat is found on the well
drained, fertile bottom lands. However,
in some of these districts there is no dan
ger yet Of the wheat lodging so as to cut
down the average somewhat.
Some interesting figures with regard to
the consumption of food in Paris have re-
Gently been published in France, from
which we take the following details: II
appears in the year 1885 no less than $685.
S94 oxen. ISIS, 500 calves, 1878, $50 sheep
and 352 004 pigs were killed at Paris. Add.
ing to this the Z ,662, Alp pounds of horse
flesh which was sold for food, 157 pounds
of meat is the average consumption oil
each inhabitant. The largest number oil
cattle came from the provinces and the
rest was supplied by Germany, Switzsr.
land and Austria-Hungary. Besides thi:
an average of pounds of tongue, livers
kidneys, calves heads, % pounds of fish
% pounds of poultry, and pounds oil
| oysters per inhabitant has to be added tc
| the consumption OF meat.
DR.. Grossman remarks that the value Of
hen manure demands not less on the care
which is given to keeping it than on the
kind of food the fowls eat. The excretior
of birds undergoes rapid change; large
amount of ammonia is soon formed which
reduces materially Its manurial value in
case it is allowed to escape. A liberal use
of plaster or of good loan, or kieserite il
| frst-rate for absorbing the ammonia. The
safest way to secure the full benefit of fhC
| droppings is to gather them often and tt
add directly the plaster or loan. a sandy
| soil is of little use as an absorbent.